- California toughens sex assault laws after Stanford case
- U.S. to Bar Arbitration Clauses in Nursing Home Contracts Compulsory arbitration, especially between economic unequal parties, should be illegal.
- Court Overturns New Hampshire Ban on Selfies (and Snapchat) in Voting Booths
- Alabama Chief Justice suspended over gay marriage stance He was suspended without pay for the remainder of his term. I'd say he was fired.
- Van Gogh paintings stolen from Amsterdam found in Italy
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Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Friday, September 30, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- ACC to relocate athletic championships from North Carolina
- SoCon suggests it may move hoops from North Carolina
- Court denies Virginia GOP's challenge on felon voting rights
- Serbian transgender army veteran celebrates new beginnings
- Man sentenced in $31 million mortgage scam conspiracy case
- McCartney, Starr reunite on blue carpet for Beatles documentary
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Today's news round-up, Part 2
Good News
- Chelsea Manning ends hunger strike, Army agrees to treatment: ACLU
- Thai junta to end trial of civilians by military courts But royal defamation is still a crime there.
- Facebook, Twitter join network to tackle fake news
Monday, September 12, 2016
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Thursday, September 08, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 2
Good News
- Judge orders state not to block Planned Parenthood funding
- Turkey court acquits famed pianist of blasphemy charges Blasphemy should not be a crime.
- Female WWII pilot has finally been laid to rest at Arlington
- Hungarian camerawoman who kicked refugees charged
- Rival Boko Haram groups clash in NE Nigeria: sources
Bad News
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- N Carolina elections board expand voting hours
- New York to allow late-term abortions for health at-risk women I am amazed that it has taken over 40 years to clear this up.
- FCC Chairman Shifts To App-Based Approach For Set-Top Box Competition This has a long way to go before it happens, unfortunately.
- U.S. Marine trainers may be prosecuted after suicide of Muslim recruit, Muslim Marine Recruit Was Slapped Before Falling to His Death: Report
- France sees sharp fall in number of citizens joining Islamic State
- Ryan Lochte Suspended For 10 Months Over Rio Gas Station Incident I think this is a reasonable punishment.
Monday, September 05, 2016
Today's news round-up
Good News
- US Army gives combat medics new type of tourniquet
- 'Bea Arthur' LGBT Homeless Shelter Slated for Completion in Feb. 2017
- We will rock you: Asteroid named after late singer Freddie Mercury
- Video shows vandals destroying popular Oregon rock formation
- 40 killed in wave of bombings targeting government-allied parts of Syria
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Today's news round-up
Good News
- U.S. Supreme Court rejects bid to reinstate North Carolina voting limits
- Insurers Can Make Obamacare Work, But They Need Help From Congress
- Georgia grand jury charges white ex-policeman with murdering black man
- Maine governor says will not resign, to seek spiritual advice Spiritual advice? He needs anger management advice. And why should his wife and children need advice?
- Study: Ohio's abortion pill law led to worse health outcomes
- NYPD might not say if officer in chokehold death is punished
- Son had 36 bruises. Mom quoted the Bible as defense.
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Today's news round-up
Good News
- P&G hires transgender model for ad campaign Rehires.
- Phoenix 1st Arizona city to offer transgender-inclusive benefits to city workers
- Gender-neutral restrooms now available at Southeast Missouri State University
- Georgia Man Who Threw Boiled Water on Gay Men Gets 40 Years
- Mississippi Islamic State recruit gets 8 years in prison
Bad News
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- Virginia governor restores voting rights to 13,000 felons
- Anti-abortion boss to recuse self from case at medical board
- Suit alleging Catholic school gay marriage bias to proceed
- AG: Ex-Milwaukee officers investigate fatal police shooting
- Woman settles lawsuit, now OK to use '8THEIST' license plate
- Nikki Hamblin, Abbey D’Agostino awarded rare Olympic medal
- Nigeria: Air raid 'fatally wounds' Boko Haram leader If it's true it would be good--though these groups seem to be able to replace leaders without that much difficulty.
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Yesterday's news round-up
Good News
- Florida: New York Grilled Cheese Defends Transgender Employee
- Electoral Map Gives Donald Trump Few Places to Go
- For LGBT High Schoolers, Gay-Straight Alliances Spell Safety
- Three Chicago police officers relieved of duty after fatal shooting
- Justice Department to review fatal Arizona police shooting
- Dallas Weatherman Resigns After Post Bashing DNC For 'Parading Mothers of Slain Thugs'
- Judge refuses to let indicted sheriff carry gun
- Donald Trump attacks Muslim father's convention speech I keep wondering how low Trump will go. I'm afraid it will be a lot further.
- Baylor's strict conduct code may have silenced rape victims
- In Florida Zika probe, federal scientists kept at arm's length
Friday, July 29, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- Court strikes down "discriminatory" North Carolina voter ID law
- Kansas: Kobach will not appeal ruling on voting rights
- U.S. judge strikes down parts of Wisconsin voter ID law: report
- The creator of the viral pro-Trump act ‘USA Freedom Kids’ now plans to sue the campaign This guy is a total amateur. He gets nothing in writing, and falls for the "great exposure" crap. As performers I know say, "People die from exposure." But this is straight from the Trump playbook: Stiff the little people. See below:
- Judge orders Trump to pay nearly $300,000 in attorney’s fees in Doral painter’s lawsuit
- Congresswoman Trolls Melania Trump By Wearing Her Dress To DNC Hilarious!
- With Degree Debunked, Melania Trump Website Is Taken Down
- Former St. Louis police officer gets 52 months in prison for punching handcuffed man
- 6 public workers charged in Flint water crisis
- Russian weightlifters banned from Rio Olympics for doping
- Turkey's Erdogan dropping lawsuits for insults against him I'm guessing most of the people he's suing have already been dismissed from their jobs. They wouldn't have any money to pay him even if he won. "Insulting" a politician should not be illegal. But as I keep saying, Turkey is not a democracy.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Today's news round-up, Part 2
Good News
- U.S. opens door to a change in blood donation policy for gay men
- California City Bans Deceptive Ads By Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Clinics
- Qualcomm to Pay $19.5M to Settle Gender Discrimination Suit
- To Reduce Bias, Some Police Departments Are Rethinking Traffic Stops
- Florida principal suspended after saying gays ‘must be put to death’
Today's news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- More than 100 celebrities pledge to work against Trump
- At least 105 Russian athletes banned so far, The Latest: 22 Russian rowers rejected for Olympics
- US Army special forces accepts first female candidates
- Feds: Senate cafeteria workers will get $1 million back pay
- Texas attorney general took gift while investigating company It's good they have found something else bad that this jerk did.
- Bangladesh police kill nine suspected Islamists in Dhaka raid
- Anti-abortion duo behind Planned Parenthood videos cleared Only on a technicality. I wonder if a new grand jury could hand up a valid indictment--but I doubt the DA would ever present that case to another grand jury.
- Georgia appeals court says 'upskirting' not against the law I think the dissent's reasoning is correct, though they should make the law more explicit.
- Islamic State group claims attack that killed priest of 85
- Suicide bombing north of Baghdad kills 16, Islamic State claims attack
Friday, July 22, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 3
Good News
- Austin police probe officer's throwing black woman to ground
- Nevada ending discrimination of prison inmates with HIV
- US acts to block two mega-mergers in health insurance
- Papa John's Worker Fired After Writing N-Word on Delivery Receipt
- Celeb hacker who stole nude images gets six months in prison
- Ventilation to Be Required in All New York Nail Salons
Bad News
Recent news round-up, Part 2
Good News
- Alaska parental notification abortion law struck down
- California governor signs bill to require registration of 'ghost guns'
- Thousands March in Jerusalem’s Gay Pride Parade One Year After Deadly Attack
- Why a Penn. man arrested for flag desecration was awarded $55,000
- France to supply artillery to Iraqi army
- Teen sues school for proposing trans students wear green wristbands This is just like the Nazis making Jews wear yellow stars.
- Thai Police Question the Wife of a British Writer Critical of Thailand’s Royal Family
Recent News round-up, Part 1
Good News
- NBA Moves 2017 All-Star Game Out Of North Carolina To Protest Anti-LGBT Law
- NCAA to survey potential host cities on discrimination laws
- Roger Ailes Out At Fox News, Rupert Murdoch Taking Over As Acting CEO
- Feds File Copyright Charges Against Owner Of World’s Most-Visited File-Sharing Site
Bad News
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- U.S. appeals court finds that Texas voter ID law is discriminatory
- Court: Traffic stop, arrest prompted by high beams improper
- Campaign aims to register a million U.S. Muslims voters in anti-Trump move
- Indiana Court Tosses Purvi Patel's 2015 Feticide Conviction
- Alaska court strikes down parental notice for abortions
- Governor Cuomo Signs Legislation to Exempt Sales and Use Taxes on Feminine Hygiene Products
- Ventilation to Be Required in All New York Nail Salons
- US goes after more than $1B taken from Malaysian fund
- Bangladesh arrests top Islamist extremist
Bad News
- WikiLeaks may have just published your SSN and credit card number
- Zara has been accused of ripping off an independent artist’s designs Zara needs to be taught about intellectual property law.
- Status update: The rise of the social-media extortionist These people belong in jail.
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